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1999 Pokemon Base Set 1st Edition Alakazam Holo Value & Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Alakazam was card number one. Literally. In the 1999 Pokemon Base Set, the cards were organized alphabetically, and Alakazam claimed the #1/102 slot. For completionists building a 1st Edition Shadowless Base Set, this was the card that started the binder. For collectors today, it is one of the mo...
Universal Geneve Tri-Compax Value & Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
Universal Geneve never had the marketing budget of Rolex or the prestige branding of Patek Philippe. What they had was engineering ambition. Starting in the 1940s, their watchmakers packed more complications into a wristwatch than most competitors thought practical: chronograph, full calendar, an...
Teddy Ruxpin (1985 Original WOW) Value & Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1985, a toy company called Worlds of Wonder shipped a stuffed bear that could move its mouth and eyes while reading stories from cassette tapes. Within months, Teddy Ruxpin became the best-selling toy in America. Parents lined up for hours. Stores sold out before Thanksgiving. At $70 retail, i...
The Clash London Calling First UK Pressing Value & Price Guide
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
On December 14, 1979, CBS Records released a double album by a London punk band that was supposed to be too angry, too political, and too loud for the mainstream. London Calling debuted at number nine on the UK albums chart. By the end of the following year, it had gone gold in the United States....
Archie Comics #1 (1942) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1941, a company called MLJ Magazines published a new character in Pep Comics #22. His name was Archie Andrews, a freckle-faced redhead from a fictional town called Riverdale. He liked girls, burgers, and getting into trouble. He was not a superhero. He did not fight crime. He went to high scho...
Wolverine #1 (1982 Limited Series) Value & Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
Before 1982, Wolverine was a team player. He had claws, a bad attitude, and a growing fan following in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. But he had never carried a story on his own. Then Chris Claremont wrote a four-issue limited series, Frank Miller drew it, and Wolverine went from popular supporting ...
2018 Panini Prizm Luka Doncic #280 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
On draft night in June 2018, the Dallas Mavericks traded up to the fifth pick, then swapped with the Atlanta Hawks to select a 19-year-old Slovenian guard who had already won a EuroLeague MVP award. Most NBA fans had never seen Luka Doncic play a single professional game in person. Within two sea...
1992 Bowman Mariano Rivera #302 Rookie Card Value and Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1992, Bowman printed a rookie card of a skinny right-handed pitcher from Panama who had spent the previous two seasons bouncing around the low minor leagues. Card number 302. Mariano Rivera. Nobody outside the Yankees organization knew his name. The card shows a young Rivera in a Columbus Clip...
1911 T205 Gold Border Christy Mathewson Value and Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Christy Mathewson smiled from his T205 Gold Border card like a man who had nothing to prove. By 1911, he had already won 300 games, thrown three shutouts in a single World Series, and earned a reputation as the most respected player in baseball. The card shows him in a relaxed pose, the gold bord...
1868 George Washington 1-Cent B Grill Stamp Value and Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
Between 1867 and 1870, the United States Post Office Department tried to solve a frustrating problem: stamp reuse. People were washing the cancellation ink off used stamps and reusing them, cheating the postal service out of revenue. The solution was the grill, a pattern of small raised bumps pre...
1854-S $5 Half Eagle (First San Francisco Gold) Value and Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
On April 3, 1854, the San Francisco Mint opened its doors and began striking coins. The first gold coins to roll off its presses were $5 Half Eagles, the denomination that would become the workhorse of California gold rush commerce. Only 268 were struck that year. It was the beginning of a mint t...
1995 Doubled Die Lincoln Cent Value and Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1995, a misalignment in the die-making process at the Philadelphia Mint created one of the most accessible and popular error coins in American numismatics. The 1995 Doubled Die Obverse Lincoln cent shows clear doubling on the words "LIBERTY" and "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the front of the coin. You ...
1866 No Motto Seated Liberty Dollar Value and Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1866, the United States Mint added the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" to most silver and gold coins. The Seated Liberty dollar was no exception. Starting that year, the motto appeared on a banner above the eagle on the reverse. But a small number of 1866 dollars were struck without the motto, using t...
Space Hulk First Edition (1989 Games Workshop) Value and Price Guide
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1989, Games Workshop released a board game that combined the claustrophobic tension of the movie Aliens with the grim darkness of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Space Hulk put one player in command of heavily armored Space Marine Terminators advancing through narrow corridors, while the other ...
Gibson J-45 Banner Headstock (1942-1945) Value and Price Guide
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1942, Gibson introduced a new acoustic guitar priced at $45. They called it the J-45. It featured a round-shouldered dreadnought body, a sunburst finish, and a bold silk-screened banner on the headstock that read "Only a Gibson is Good Enough." The guitar was designed to be affordable and dura...
Alpha Mox Sapphire (Magic: The Gathering) Value and Price Guide
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In the summer of 1993, a mathematics professor named Richard Garfield released a card game through a small Seattle company called Wizards of the Coast. The game was Magic: The Gathering. One of the cards in the very first print run was Mox Sapphire, a tiny blue jewel that cost zero mana to play a...
Longines 13ZN Chronograph (1930s-1940s) Value and Price Guide
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1936, Longines introduced a chronograph movement that would rewrite watchmaking history. The Caliber 13ZN was the first chronograph movement with a widely produced flyback function, allowing the pilot or driver wearing it to stop, reset, and restart the chronograph with a single press of the b...
American Girl Dolls (Pleasant Company Originals, 1986) Value and Price Guide
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1986, a former teacher and TV journalist named Pleasant Rowland was Christmas shopping and found herself stuck between two options: Barbie dolls that felt too grown-up and Cabbage Patch Kids that felt too silly. She wanted something that could teach girls about history while still being fun to...
Wu-Tang Clan: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Value and History
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
There is one copy. There will only ever be one copy. No streaming. No downloads. No reproductions allowed until 2103. Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is not a record you can buy, sell, or collect in any traditional sense. It is a conceptual art piece, a protest against the devaluation ...
Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975) Value and Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1975, Marvel Comics had a problem. The X-Men were dead weight. The original series had been reduced to reprints since issue #67 in 1970. Nobody was buying it. Nobody cared. So Marvel handed the franchise to a writer named Len Wein and an artist named Dave Cockrum and told them to start over. ...
Saga #1 (2012 Image Comics) Value and Price Guide
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In March 2012, Image Comics published the first issue of a science fiction series about two soldiers from opposite sides of a galactic war who fall in love and have a baby. The writer was Brian K. Vaughan, already famous for Y: The Last Man. The artist was Fiona Staples, whose painted covers woul...
1980 Topps Rickey Henderson Rookie #482 Value and Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1980, Topps printed a card of a skinny outfielder from the Oakland Athletics. Card number 482. Nothing about it screamed future legend. The design was bland. The stats on the back listed just one major league season. And the printing quality was so poor that finding a perfectly centered, defec...
1987 Topps Barry Bonds #320 Error Card Value and Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Few baseball cards have generated more confusion per dollar than the 1987 Topps Barry Bonds #320. Search eBay for this card and you will find hundreds of listings screaming "ERROR CARD" and "RARE MISPRINT" with prices ranging from $5 to $5,000. The truth is less exciting but worth knowing before ...
1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #181 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
The 1933 Goudey set is the most important bubble gum card set in baseball history. It was the first major set distributed in gum packs, the first to feature current players in color, and it contains not one but four Babe Ruth cards. Card #181 is the one with the biggest portrait: Ruth's face fill...
1923 German Hyperinflation Stamps (Billion-Mark Values) Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
In January 1923, a letter within Germany cost 50 marks to mail. By November of the same year, the same letter cost 100 billion marks. The numbers on German postage stamps that year tell a story of economic catastrophe so extreme it reads like fiction. Stamps were printed with denominations of 5 m...